Staff Nurse, Band 5

NHS; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Staff Nurse in the Chedworth Surgical Unit, where you will deliver exceptional patient care in a dynamic environment. This role involves assessing and preparing patients for surgery, providing post-operative care, and ensuring a safe discharge. Ideal candidates will be compassionate, resilient, and possess strong communication skills, committed to maintaining high standards of patient safety and care.

Qualifications

• Active NMC Adult Nurse registrant required.
• Recognised adult nursing qualification essential.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of patient care in a clinical environment.
• Assess and prepare patients for elective surgery.
• Liaise with MDT for optimal patient outcomes.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Resilience

Time management

Patient safety

Education

Active NMC Adult Nurse registrant

Recognised adult nursing qualification

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse, Band 5

The closing date is 03 June 2025

Chedworth Surgical Unit is a brand new purpose built unit that takes elective day case and surgical admissions on the Cheltenham site. You will be working as part of the Chedworth Surgical Unit team delivering exceptional care for the patients attending the unit.

Day case surgery is becoming more common, it now makes up approximately 80% of all surgery performed. We deliver a increased number of operations carried out as day case procedures from a number of specialities including urology, breast, gynae, upper GI and orthopaedic. We require dynamic, compassionate and enthusiastic nurses to join our team to deliver exceptional care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

You will work in a clinical environment and provide a high standard of patient care, able to assess and prepare both major and day surgery patients prior to undergoing elective surgery either under local or general anaesthesia.

You will provide post-operative care to the day case patients and ensure a safe criteria led discharge home the same day.

You will liaise with the MDT, to ensure a positive patient experience and optimal surgical outcome.

About us

Chedworth Surgical Unit is committed to providing high quality care to all our patients. We are a highly motivated and dedicated team who strive to deliver a consistently positive experience to all our patients and staff.

Gloucestershire Hospitals is one of the largest hospital trusts in England serving a diverse population of almost 620,000 people. We provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) & Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH). Maternity Services are also provided at Stroud Maternity Hospital

We are committed to diversity, inclusion & equality of opportunity for everyone, valuing and celebrating differences and encouraging a workplace & culture where all can thrive. We endeavour to ensure each & every person working in our organisation feel respected & valued

Job responsibilities

- To work in a clinical environment and provide a high standard of patient care, able to assess and prepare both major and day surgery patients prior to undergoing elective surgery either under local or general anaesthesia.

- Provide post-operative care to the day case patients and ensure a safe discharge home the same day.

- To liaise with the MDT, to ensure a positive patient experience and optimal surgical outcome.

- Be able to effectively manage time and workload to ensure smooth running of the unit.

- Complete documentation to a high standard electronically and in written format.

- Communicate clearly and effectively with kindness and respect.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Active NMC Adult Nurse registrant
• Recognised adult nursing qualification
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Teaching and assessing qualification

Knowledge and skills

• Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
• Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety.
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload.
• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge nursing practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.
• Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.

Clinical experiance

• Experience (through placement or employment) of working in an acute clinical environment.
• Previous experience in a relevant specialty.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£29,970 to £36,483 a year(pa pro rata if part-time)